Right-Wing Militia Leader Says Constitution Gives Him The Right To Assassinate President Obama

When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963,
most Americans wept at the terrible news. Today, it seems like if
President Obama were assassinated half of the nation would mourn his
loss while the other half would cheer wildly. Which half would cheer you
ask? Those who identify as conservatives of course. And just as conservative extremists once called for JFK to be killed during his presidency, they are doing it all over again in the hopes that history will repeat itself.

Conservative extremist Everest Wilhelmsen called for assassinating President Obama on Facebook.

Three days prior to the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death, a right-wing
nut job posted a call to assassinate President Obama on his Facebook
page. Everest Wilhelmsen identifies himself as a supporter of the Tea
Party. He’s also obsessed with guns and the Second Amendment.
Furthermore, he’s the head of a militia as well as a birther. In his
post flagged by Americablog, Wilhelmsen claims to have the authority to shoot and kill President Obama and says this authority has been granted to him by the Constitution.

“We
now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” Wilhelmsen
wrote. “His willful violations and alienation of our Constitution,
constant disregard for our peaceful protests and corruption of all the
three branches of government, (i.e., rogue and illegitiimate
government), reveal the dictator that he is… The authority to kill Obama
comes from the 2nd Amendment… I would be very surprised, if Obama does
not leave Washington DC today (Nov. 19th) …never to return, if he is not
dead within the month. ”

Here’s the image of Wilhelmsen’s offensive post via Americablog.

The militia head also threatened members of the Obama administration on his blog.

It appears that Wilhelmsen’s post has since been removed, either by himself or by Facebook. But his page
is still full of anti-Obama diatribes. One such post calls for removing
President Obama before American girls are forced to marry “Muslim
rapists.” Yet another claims that President Obama will commit genocide
against Christians the same way Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews.

But Facebook isn’t the only place on the internet where he is urging assassinations. Apparently, Wilhelmsen also keeps a blog,
which was also flagged by Americablog. And on that blog, he is openly
threatening and calling for the killing of high ranking members of the
Obama administration if they do not force Obama out of office. He also
says his militia has “the right and the weapons” to destroy the current
government “by force” instead of via a legal election.

Calling for the assassination of the President is a felony and Facebook should remove the offending posts.

This man is openly advocating for assassinating the sitting President
of the United States and overthrowing the legally elected government
via a violent coup. Not only should Wilhelmsen be arrested by the Secret
Service, Facebook should ban him and remove his pages. If Facebook
chooses not to remove his pages as a violation of their standards, I can
only assume that they support Wilhelmsen and his goals. That makes
Facebook guilty of aiding a man who is committing a felony. Threatening
violence against the President is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 871. This
isn’t merely a protest against President Obama or a disagreement with
his policies. This is a call to assassinate him. In short, Wilhelmsen’s
posts do not qualify as free and protected speech.

Wilhelmsen isn’t the first right-wing nut job to threaten violence against President Obama.

This isn’t the first time a right-wing extremist has called for
deadly violence against President Obama on Facebook. A Maine Republican
did the same thing in August when he called for someone to “shoot the n****r” on his Facebook page. Two years ago, yet another conservative called for killing Obama on Facebook.
Only this time, he threatened the First Family as well. “Assassinate
the f****n n****r and his monkey children,” his post read.

While liberals move this country forward by peaceful and legal means, right-wingers threaten violence to take it backwards.

As President Obama moves deeper into his second term in office, the
calls for violence against him have only gotten more numerous and
desperate from conservatives. Their desire to shoot and kill the first
African-American President in our nation’s history has reached
fever-pitch. Seeing as how Democrats have ended petty obstruction by
hateful Republicans in the Senate, it is expected that threats such as
these will only increase and get worse.

Clearly, President Obama is in danger and so is our democracy. These
threats justify why the Department of Homeland Security and a West Point
think-tank classified right-wing extremists
as a dangerous threat to the country. Ever since Obama took office, the
right has gone completely crazy with hate. They have zero ideas and are
incapable of winning elections by making a reasonable case to voters.
They can’t even bring themselves to compromise on anything. So they
threaten the nation with guns and violent revolution in order to scare
Americans and get their way. This is just another reason why Americans
should vote Republicans out of office at election time. They should also
reject any candidate who has even the slightest connection with a
right-wing think-tank or extremist group. While liberals attempt to move
this country forward peacefully by legal means, conservatives only
threaten to spill blood in their effort to take it backwards. It’s
disgraceful and Facebook should be ashamed for allowing the Everest
Wilhelmsens of the world make such threats on their website.